Design Plastic Parts and Molds with Confidence

Accurate Mold Flow Simulation

Predict material flow and injection points to avoid manufacturing defects like warping and sink marks.

Integrated Design Environment

Simulate plastic part performance directly within the SOLIDWORKS interface.

Reduce Prototyping Costs

Identify potential design issues early to save time and resources.

Optimize Manufacturing Processes

Improve part quality and production efficiency by simulating the entire molding process.

Key Features That Set SOLIDWORKS Plastics Apart

Mold Flow Simulation: Analyze plastic injection behavior to improve part and mold designs.

Injection Molding Optimization: Optimize gate locations, runner systems, and cooling channels.

Integrated Analysis Tools: Simulate plastic performance directly within SOLIDWORKS for a seamless workflow.

Comprehensive Reporting: Generate detailed reports for stakeholders to validate and share results.

Why Choose SOLIDWORKS Plastics?

Ensure the quality and manufacturability of your plastic parts with accurate simulations. Save time and costs by identifying issues early, optimizing mold designs, and streamlining production—all within the familiar SOLIDWORKS interface.

Struggling with manufacturing defects in plastic parts?

Use mold flow analysis to identify and correct potential issues before production.

Difficulty optimizing mold design?

Simulate the injection molding process to refine designs and improve manufacturability.

High costs due to excessive prototyping?

Validate designs virtually to reduce reliance on physical prototypes.

SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Standard

Ensure parts are manufacturable during the design process. Easy to learn and use, the standard package is fully embedded within SOLIDWORKS CAD so you can analyze and modify part designs at the same time you optimize for form, fit, and function.

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SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Professional

Builds on the capabilities of Standard to analyze mold designs. With easy-to-use tools, quickly analyze single and multicavity molds, as well as family mold layouts including sprues, runners, and gates. Estimate cycle time and optimize your feed system design.

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SOLIDWORKS Plastics

Premium

Includes all the benefits and tools of Professional with added advanced simulation functionality to analyze mold cooling line layouts and part warpage. Optimizing the cooling line minimizes cycle times and decreases manufacturing costs.

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Standard

Professional

Premium

Ease of Use

Design Data Reuse

Materials Database

Meshing

Parallel Computing (Multi-core)

Filling Phase (1st Stage Injection)

Instantaneous Fill Time Plot

Sink Mark Analysis

eDrawings Support

Fill Time

Ease of Fill

Results Adviser

Pressure at End of Fill

Flow Front Temperature

Temperature at End of Fill

Shear Rate

Cooling Time

Weld Lines

Sink Marks

Frozen Layer Fraction at End of Fill

Clamp Force

Cycle Time

Symmetry Analysis

Packing Phase (2nd Stage Injection)

Runner Balancing

Runner Design Wizard

Sprues and Runners

Hot and Cold Runners

Multi-cavity Molds

Family Molds

Mold Inserts

Volumetric Shrinkag

Density at End of Pack

Exports STL, NASTRAN

Export with Mechanical Properties ABAQUS®, ANSYS, DigiMat®

Cooling Lines

Baffles and Bubblers

Conformal Cooling Channels

Runner Domain Category

Sink Mark Profiles

Mold Temperature at Cooling End

Displacement Due to Residual Stress

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